LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 42-year-old Lincoln woman found hoarding dozens of cats and other pets in her home has been sentenced to 18 months’ probation and been barred from owning any pets for five years.

Autumn Rupert received the sentence Friday after pleading guilty to three counts of animal neglect.

In May, officers found dozens of cats and the house smelling strongly of urine and feces. Officials gave Rupert a week to clean up the house and on May 16 returned with animal control officers and removed nearly four dozen cats, a rabbit, three finches, two beta fish and 13 cages of tarantulas — as well as 10 dead kittens.

Of the 45 cats rescued, 28 were too sick to be saved and were euthanized.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence for an Omaha man who shot a teen to death during a 2014 robbery.

Prosecutors say Adrian Lester shot 18-year-old Tielor (TYE’-lur) Williams five times in the face and neck in April 2014 Gallagher Park. Police say Williams was shot after refusing to empty his pockets following a dispute over a marijuana deal.

In his appeal, Lester says his trial court improperly struck a prospective juror, excluded testimony offered to impeach a witness and denied his motion for a new trial. Lester also argued that there was insufficient evidence presented at trial to support his conviction.

The Nebraska high court on Friday rejected all of Lester’s arguments.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police are seeking a woman who passed a counterfeit $100 bill to buy five boxes of Girl Scout cookies in west Omaha.

Authorities say some Girl Scouts had set up outside a store Wednesday afternoon when the woman approached. She said wanted to buy five $4 boxes of the cookies but had only the $100 bill. A scout co-leader, Roni Gosch, gave the woman $80 in change, using her own money so the girls wouldn’t run short of cash to make change for other buyers.

Another of the women helping the girls soon suspected the bill was bogus. Police say it was.

Police have obtained pictures of the woman and the vehicle she arrived in from parking lot surveillance video. No arrest has been reported.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A teen accused of firing a gun at a Nebraska State trooper and fleeing the officer in a stolen car has been charged as an adult in Douglas County Court.

Prosecutors have charged 17-year-old Shane Kildow with four felony counts: attempted assault of an officer, use of deadly weapon, discharging a firearm from an occupied vehicle and theft.

Investigators say Kildow began firing when the trooper tried to stop him early Tuesday morning northwest of Omaha. Officials say Kildow crashed the stolen car he was driving in Valley, and then fled on foot before he was caught with the help of a police dog. The trooper was not injured.

A public defender appointed to represent Kildow on Thursday did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 26-year-old Omaha woman has been given two to three years in prison for stabbing to death her mother.

Court records say Carletta Wells-Harris was sentenced Wednesday in Douglas County District Court. She’d pleaded no contest to manslaughter after prosecutors dropped a second-degree murder charge and a weapons count.

Authorities say Wells-Harris killed 43-year-old Meredith Wells during a dispute at her home on July 5 last year.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man has pleaded not guilty to what authorities say was a drug-related slaying in Lincoln.

Court records say 33-year-old Jamez Henderson entered his pleas Wednesday in Lancaster County District Court to a second-degree murder charge, use of a firearm, methamphetamine possession, and three other crimes.

Henderson and six other people are suspected in the Dec. 15 shooting death of 41-year-old Jamie Watson. His body was found in a car trunk.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An administrator at a University of Nebraska-Lincoln center has been accused of using university money to pay personal airplane travel expenses.

Online court records say 29-year-old Laviania Thandayithabani (tehn’-daye-uhth-uh-PAH’-naye) is charged with felony theft. Her attorney didn’t immediately return a call Thursday from The Associated Press. She’s assistant director of operations for the Nebraska Transportation Center, which aids collaboration by university, industry and government officials on transportation issues and research.

University police say in court documents that they found 17 charges on the university travel portal system from April 2015 through December 2016 totaling more than $11,300. Officials say none of the trips was approved.

Her next court appearance is scheduled for March 28.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Grand Island authorities have released the names of a woman who was fatally injured and a man who was hurt in the collision of their cars.

The collision occurred around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday. Police Capt. Jim Duering identified the woman Thursday as Ivelynn Dwinell, of Grand Island, and the man as Larry Roebuck Jr., of Phillips.

Duering says Dwinell was pulling out of a restaurant driveway to head north when her car was struck by Roebuck’s southbound car.

Dwinell was pronounced dead later at a hospital. Roebuck was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

The collision is being investigated.

SIDNEY, Iowa (AP) — At least three students have been injured in a collision between a school bus and a pickup truck near the front of a school in southwest Iowa.

Authorities say the collision occurred around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Sidney Junior/Senior High School in Sidney. District Superintendent Gregg Cruickshank says the bus had just left the grounds to take seven students to vocational classes in Sidney when the oncoming pickup swerved across the street and hit the bus.

Cruickshank says a student driving the pickup was flown to an Omaha, Nebraska, hospital for treatment. The superintendent says the bus driver and two boys on the bus were taken to a local hospital as a precaution.

He declined to release any names.

Cruickshank also says classes continued as scheduled Wednesday.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — An April sentencing hearing has been scheduled for a 76-year-old Hastings woman who pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide.

Online court records say Marylin Gish pleaded guilty Tuesday to the misdemeanor count. Her sentencing is scheduled for April 24.

Police say Gish was driving a pickup Sept. 7 when she turned onto the street Joyce Schiffler was crossing and struck the 72-year-old woman. Gish told police she didn’t see Schiffler, who died later at a Lincoln hospital.